Hey friends, Dave here with Transfer Express, and I don't know about you but, I cannot believe it's
almost thanksgiving where has this year gone?! Sometimes when you're printing for time-sensitive
events kind of like these upcoming holidays you find yourself asking the same question-
'where has all this time went?' Well, today we are talking about how you could print t-shirts
for any last minute events super quick and affordable regardless of the quantity that
you need! But, we're strapped for time so let's get this project rolling!
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before we jump into creating some custom t-shirts for our event here let's talk about avoiding these
time crunches all together well i know sometimes it's just unavoidable planning ahead is always
key that's why we put together a free t-shirt printing calendar ebook with tons of dates
and events that you could print for year round you could download it yourself right here
or from the link that we have in the description below thanksgiving is an awesome time to jump
on some highly profitable t-shirt orders for any apparel decorator you don't even have to look too
far outside your own community for some business opportunities and events that you can make a ton
of profit with coupled with the customizable layouts in our free easy view online designer
you can create t-shirts just like these in a matter of minutes everything from 5ks
to turkey trots thanksgiving parades or even some teas for some friendly games of football
let's set the scene here with less than a week to go you get asked by the local food bank to
help with some last minute t-shirts and aprons for volunteers working the annual thanksgiving dinner
100 shirts 100 aprons no problem let me show you just how easy it is to go from an idea
to a finished screen printed t-shirt and aprons in just a couple clicks and a couple of days first
things first the t-shirt design so let's head on over to transferexpress.com and open up our
free easy view online designer and here we can easily customize some of our layouts to create
some unique artwork for this specific event right off the bat we could click over to add layout
and start browsing our layouts here in the promo layouts we found layout qpr-50 now this design is
made for probably a brewery but i think it'll work great for our needs for these shirts right here
let's click on it to start customizing double clicking on the text allows us to edit it where
we'll put in food for good we'll add the four just by duplicating this bottom line of text
all of our object tools are always right up here at the red bar in the top instead of the
city name let's swap it for thanksgiving you can see we have some text controls on the left
that allow us to adjust the letter spacing with just a few clicks it fills the space here on this
banner a little bit better but this just shows you how powerful easy view online designer is
then we'll swap in a turkey at the bottom for the artwork and with a little bit of
sizing adjustments we are all set now to cut down the print cost we could fit the prints for the
aprons here right on the side of the sheet we'll take our text and add a spoon a fork next to it
and we'll also throw volunteer down here at the bottom for the back side of our t-shirts of course
if you have your own artwork or logos you can use them too just upload them right here on the left
hand side using this button now that we've got all of our prints ready to go on one gang sheet
let's finalize the shirt color and ink colors for our project and configure our transfers right here
at 100 quantity for these two color goof proof transfers we're looking at about three dollars
and four cents per sheet which breaks down to about 76 cents per image since we've got
a total of four prints here on our gang sheet you could put any art here in the extra space
on your gang sheets from other customers that you have other projects inside tag prints or even your
own company's branding everything is priced by the sheet so use that extra space to your advantage
once our transfers arrive all we have to do is just cut our graphics out from each gang sheet
and fire up our heat press so let's see just how quick and easy it is to print the front and
back along here with those aprons now before we start pressing here let's go ahead and check our
settings and make sure everything is configured properly here on the hotronix autoclam by 20.
on the back we're pressing goof proof at 365 degrees we will be pre-pressing on the first
timer for three to five seconds and goof proof applies at four to six seconds so we are all
set here first things first we'll go ahead and load our t-shirt onto the platen now we'll be
printing the front graphic and we'll be putting that volunteer right here on the back as well so
what i love to do with the auto clam on one of our caddy stands is just open up the t-shirt like
a pillow case and slide it right onto the heat press here you can see your shoulder seams and
get everything nice and aligned properly i grabbed it and put it right down so i know backside is all
centered now with every seam and collar off the printing area we'll go ahead and pre-press this
this is going to be a great opportunity to check the pressure on your press as well with the
goof proof we're looking for medium to firm so we'll look for anything higher than like a six
sure enough right here on the auto clamp it tells us our pressure's at an eight so it's perfect
now that we have our transfer here for the front side this two color goof proof looking very good
and you might notice a little bit of grit on it it's just the adhesive any stray adhesive
will completely disappear on the shirt so go ahead and just put this one down right here
onto the front my favorite rule of thumb for placing transfers is just about three fingers
down from the bottom of collar to where the graphic starts so we're happy with the placement
here on this port and company blank we'll go ahead and press this for four to six seconds
The best thing about Goof Proof is it is a hot peel so after that four to six seconds peel
the carrier paper away immediately and that leaves you with an absolutely finished shirt
this is all it takes four to six seconds for one shirt you could get several shirts in one
minute so you're busting out a hundred in a very short time frame but don't forget about that back
print so what we'll do is we'll just pull it off a little bit and we'll rotate the entire
shirt the whole way around just a little quick 180 right we'll go ahead and push this back onto our
heat press and i'll make sure that we're aligned looking at the shoulder seams all the way down
into the back of the shirt now since we haven't pre-pressed the back side we're going to
pre-press this back to remove any moisture and wrinkles out of the shirt for the back
Another three to five seconds gets all of that out and gives us a great printing surface.
Once we're ready to go, we'll grab our volunteer graphic
that will be replacing right here on the upper back. So, the way i'm going to align this one is
just look at it centered here and look at our shoulder seams so we're going to be about two
fingers on each side away from the shoulder seam about four to five inches down from
collar so that's about four or five fingers i only have four fingers so i just guessed
here we'll press this one for another four to six seconds just like our regular goof proof
and once we're all set we can peel the transfer carrier away and we're left
with a completely finished shirt and just like that our front side our back side all ready to go
now don't forget about those aprons now just how we applied onto the t-shirt we followed the same
exact instructions to print one of our extra graphics that were on our game sheet right here
on the apron and you can see how awesome this two color print looks on this 100 polyester apron of
course if you're printing goof proof on polyester you want to be sure that you're using the lower
application temperature here for white polyester we were absolutely fine without any discoloration
but sometimes those heavily dyed 100 polyester garments could see some scorching or discoloration
at a high heat like 365 degrees while we print the goof proof at but that's what makes goof
proof such a versatile product because it could also apply as low as 325 reducing any scorching
on 100 polyester and that's it that is just how easy the goof proof applies a two color and we
have our aprons and our shirts only 99 more to go but now that we are feeling super festive
i want to welcome on a very special guest with us jenna from stahls tv here in the transfer express
studio jenna how are you doing today i'm doing great and i am so excited to be here
you're actually talking about one of my favorite holidays of the year thanksgiving yes turkey time
yeah absolutely and i can't believe it's already here come so quick again with these events how
fast they come up on you so i'm going to let you handle your own t-shirt with our custom transfers
from transfer express and take it away all right thanks so much so i am so excited to be here at
transfer express talking about like i said one of my favorite holidays of the year because there are
so many different events going on and you get to go to those events and spend a ton of time
with friends and family now you can think about it like that but as a business owner and as an
apparel decorator you start to think about what profits that you can take advantage of when you
start hearing about events that are going on near the holiday so one of those that i'm going to be
targeting today is parades so whether it is a big parade in a city or if it is a small local parade
there are so many things that you can be printing to really target the people that are attending
these events dave did a phenomenal job of introducing to you different ways to utilize
goof proof and different things that you can print to ultimately yield a very high profit opportunity
for the custom products that you are heat printing now you want to start thinking about other ink
solutions that you can use that will yield an even higher profit opportunity and draw attention from
customers you may not already be reaching one extremely popular one is puff and this solution
is actually a dimensional finish which i have the liberty of showing you using the hotronix autoclam
and we are going to be decorating a super popular t-shirt hoodie with this product so you can see
firsthand how this dimensional screen print ink can yield a higher profit opportunity to
the custom products that you're printing at events let's head to the heat press
as i mentioned we are going to be custom printing a t-shirt hoodie but before we get started there
is a rule of thumb when it comes to printing puff ink and that is that you want to remove the silver
cover on your bottom platen this is known as a quick slip pad protector and we want to remove
this because we are going to want a nice really firm pressure whenever we do this and it's just
been tested that puff and that ink formula works really well whenever this is not loaded onto that
bottom platen so now i'm just going to load on my bottom garment by threading it we're going
to completely open that up and load that on the bottom platen completely isolating the print area
getting it nice and flat where no seams or anything are in the way causing any
uneven pressure pressure is key to getting these transfers to work exactly how you want them to
now we are going to preheat to release any moisture or wrinkles in the fabric this is
also going to allow me to test my pressure now the standard application instruction for puff ink is
365 degrees at a firm pressure for five seconds now whenever i place my transfer i just lift this
up ever so slightly to see where the design is going to start on my transfer and as long
as it is four fingers down from the collar which measures out roughly three inches i know i'm good
to go so i can go ahead and lock down my press and allow it to complete the application for me
so you'll notice the similarity in the application of this with goof proof
it does apply in a short amount of time and you can see the phenomenal dimension and the
3d of this finish that the puff offers now we are printing a hoodie and hoodies are extremely
popular around this time of year and as we look at this hoodie we noticed yes we have a really
great standard front print this will sell so well to the demographic that you're trying to reach
because hoodies are so popular however there is so much real estate on just this single garment
and we've already talked about profit opportunity and building more profitability into each item
that you're selling so we want to take advantage of this real estate and print another um area of
this garment so what i'm going to do is just take this sleeve and load it right onto my platen here
and you may be thinking okay this seam is going to cause way too much uneven pressure now because we
are working with this t-shirt style hoodie that seam is actually very thin and we are not going
to be placing our design too close to that seam so it's not going to cause too much uneven pressure
so that we will get a nice adhesion once we apply so i'm just going to lock this
down again we're repeating that preheat step getting moisture and wrinkles out of the fabric
and now i can take my transfer and add another profit opportunity
by just printing an additional area of this garment and now i can get a higher price for it
and as we remove the release paper that the screen print transfer is on
you will see how nicely this adhered the opacity that the ink offers and of course we are getting
two colors in just one application and there you have it that is our completed garment
so that you can reach more events in your area and definitely offer something unique that will build
more value in your brand as a custom apparel decorator that's how quick and easy it is to
use custom screen printed transfers designed online and easy view or with your own artwork
with turn times as quick as one business day it's super easy to create premium quality printed
t-shirts on almost any last minute project if you want to learn more or get some free samples for
yourself head on over to transferexpress.com or click the link in the description below be sure
you are subscribed here to our channel because we're dropping new videos every single week jenna
thank you so much for hanging out with us today it was fun awesome and until next time happy pressing